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Re: Honey, I Found the Voter Registration Fraud
05/22/12 6:02 am
Question: Does the GOP at any level do anything like a basic background check? It'd make elections a lot less embarassing.Re: Morning Awful: Libertarians
05/18/12 12:42 pm
Quoth Cerberus at Sadly, No!: You know, I want a magic button that deprives people who say they are self-made and didn’t rely on no gover...Re: Morning Awful: Libertarians
05/18/12 5:11 am
:: facepalm :: Libertarians remind me of starry-eyed 19 year-old college students who have lots of lofty ideas that would never work in ...05/17/12 6:40 am
Conrad Black did it to get a fancy title and thought he wouldn't get caught.Re: Wingnut Wind Power Wankery is Not About Free Markets
05/14/12 4:48 pm
You can add this to the list of idiocies. –alopeciaRe: Morning Awful: Closet Romney
05/13/12 9:58 am
As Bill Maher said in his monologue on Friday (one of the more prescient comments), in most salons, the guy wielding the scissors is the ga...Re: The Democratic Party Marijuana Evolution
05/11/12 3:48 pm
Buy stocks in marijuana too. It goes to a good cause and you make some money on the side. If marijuana is so bad, why is it that there are ...05/09/12 2:47 pm
I swear, I wrote this last night, and I had no idea what was coming today.Re: Morning Awful: North Carolina
05/09/12 10:37 am
My thoughts on this are going up in a comic later tonight. Good news is, it appears the President listened to them before they even got ...Re: Morning Awful: North Carolina
05/09/12 6:03 am
I was so disappointed when I heard the news about North Carolina this morning. There's still a lot of work to do.Re: Morning Awful: North Carolina
05/09/12 2:26 am
Thank you. I could not have said this better. The more they bemoan and bully the President for a response, the more divided the Democrats l...05/08/12 12:39 pm
This makes perfect sense. My problem is that I have come to dislike organized religion so much, feel so cynical about it, I don't know...Re: #StopRush, ALEC, and the Howard Stern Category
05/08/12 11:59 am
Like “class warfare,” it is only wrong when we fight back. Sounds an awful lot like every bully, everywhere, doesn't it? –alopeciaRe: Morning Awful: Mitt Romney is Weak
05/08/12 6:46 am
Rachel Maddow is rooting for Ron Paul...and thinks the current president has too much power - like there ARE two other branches of governme...
Category Archives: Teh Stupid™
Debunking Climate Change Denial
Now that the village media is finally waking up to the dangers of fringe politics, more mainstream outlets need to start challenging Teh Stupid™ with actual journalism. The holy grail of climate change denial is an alternative explanation for global … Continue reading
Pat Buchanan Should Be Next
Now that fifty-seven sponsors have quit Glenn Beck, will progressives do the same for Pat Buchanan? In case you haven’t heard, yesterday Pat Buchanan suggested that Hitler didn’t want war. If you’ve got plenty of stomach for Teh Stupid™, I’ve … Continue reading
Glenn Beck’s Fresco Fiasco
Glenn Beck says the mysterious commie art at Rockefeller Center proves that America’s most successful capitalist and oil speculator was, himself, a communist. Actually, the artist’s name was Diego Rivera, and Rockefeller was somehow unaware of his politics when he … Continue reading
Lieberman Brings Teh Stupid™
Joe “But he’s great on domestic issues!” Lieberman says we should put off insuring the uninsured until after the recession. Once again, a Blue Dog is more worried about the size of the bill than the size of the problem. … Continue reading
In the Market for a Health Care Yugo
I’m in the market for a Yugo. At the town hall I covered last night, Dr. Tom Ott stood at the microphone to make this remark: (He) spoke of his wife, Margaret, who died in the 1980s of breast cancer … Continue reading
Worst Blogger
I can agree with the first sentence of the last paragraph of John Avlon’s “The Coming Liberal Suicide“: The perfect cannot be the enemy of the good. The goal is to decrease costs and increase coverage. If today’s liberals don’t … Continue reading
Obama is Not God
This is a sixteen second video that never played on Faux Noise: This is a health care town hall protester pulling the veil off her Stupid™: This silliness about Obama being a “false prophet” is pure psychological projection. Only religious … Continue reading
Sarah’s Wacky™ Gives Conservatives Second Thoughts
Why is Sarah Palin suddenly changing the subject? Her latest Facebook missive is a tirade against cap-and-trade legislation. Her “sources” are the Heritage Foundation and her own previous op-ed. She’s going back to the previous fail to change the subject … Continue reading
Another Palin Trifecta
Sarah Palin came out of her seclusion today to offer up another Trifecta to her Facebook fans. It’s a grand mélange of Teh Crazy™, Teh Stupid™, and Teh Wacky™, all delivered with that trademark of the fringe: the breathless sense … Continue reading
Orly Taitz Deconstructed
This being a website of media deconstruction, I have developed a hypothesis that the entire canon of wingnuttia can be distilled into three overlapping and mutually-supporting parts: Teh Crazy™, Teh Wacky™, and Teh Stupid™. Definitions are still somewhat fluid at … Continue reading
Glenn Beck Fail
You might think it impossible for Glenn Beck to keep topping himself for Teh Stupid™, but here it is: a rant about sea turtles and otters. Beck’s blowing a dog-whistle here: the bit about spending 80% of the turtle conservation … Continue reading
